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What Is Holding You Back From Success?

And you’re sure it’s time to shake things up but you’re finding it hard to know where to start to transform your business. Some say there are three reasons we do anything in our lives: to make money, to make a name for ourselves, and/or to make a difference. Many of the entrepreneurial small business owners I coach are seeking to add value to the world, stay true to their principles and enhance their creativity and flexibility.  Measurable results count. And, yes, the money is nice, as well.  

Same Action: Different Results?

• Hoping you get there won’t get you there.
• Reading a book or attending seminars without followup action won’t get you there
• Getting angry with yourself won’t get you there
• Falling into familiar patterns of fear, inaction or self-doubt will not improve your situation.

It all starts with your strategic intent – a simple, do-able plan – and belief.  Before any real progress is made, you must believe you can. Now it is time to manage the growth of your organization, design your corporate culture, and facilitate the change from startup to established small business.

It is my passion to work with small business owners just like you. My work has given me deep insight into how and why people feel they cannot change their situations. When we work together, I will help you build your plan, re-focus your abilities and help you to propel yourself towards positive business and personal accomplishment.

Here’s how:  

The 3 Keys Process: Ability | Success | Growth

“The 3 Keys Process will help you overcome your fears.  It supports you taking the steps you need to bring on that well-deserved success you’ve always dreamed of, but never really believed possible.”  

Ability techniques help you clarify your business vision and purpose, identify how you self-sabotage, and guide you as you set realistic, clear goals that will lead to success.

Keith’s experience shows us how ABILITY techniques work…

Keith is a new entrepreneur who dreamed of his Big Idea for years and it is now a reality.  As his business begins to grow, he struggles with organizing his time. He has less and less of it to evaluate opportunities and follow through with his goals. He is missing deadlines. Most days he feels frustrated and unorganized. Through coaching, Keith discovered he had a self-limiting story that becoming successful financially meant he was greedy or selfish. He was able to prove this was a false story with no basis in fact. He also determined that setting up a personalized system of organization and measurement allowed him to concentrate on creating new products and services as well as spending more time with family and friends.  

Action Steps –

• Identify how you get in your own way and delay or even prevent your success
• Realign your values with the direction of your business  
• Clarify your business vision and implement and action plan
• Develop and implement organizational and measurement systems that promote ease of work

What are your action steps? Shall we discuss them?

Success techniques support noticing how different leading a startup is from leading a small business. There is more emphasis on how you show up as a leader and manager and building the organizational culture that inspires both your passion and your employees’ passion.

Here is Joan’s story and how she used the Success techniques.

Five years ago, Joan started the company because she believed in developing an organizational culture that emphasized creativity, experimentation, and people as assets. She has put guidelines and basic systems in place. There is stability. Revenue streams are strong. It is time to create a proper management team. And she is unsure what her functions as CEO should be moving forward. Joan is terrified. Joan used coaching, particularly the homework portions (between sessions) to clarify her strengths and weaknesses as a leader and manager. By doing these exercises, she noticed that she had to listen differently and not fall back into her old problem-solver role and practiced allowing people to fail and/or make mistakes. She found talented people ready to be part of the management team and they were inspired by the business vision she presented. As a result, Joan changed people’s roles and responsibilities to reflect her faith in their abilities to help generate new business at a national level.  

Action steps-

• Define your role as leader and manager
• Enhance communication skills
• Revisit and re-dedicate to your business vision
• Identify and promote/hire key people to delegate responsibility.

What might your action steps be? Shall we discuss them?  

Growth techniques deepen the entrepreneurial small business owner’s abilities and experience setting the stage for challenging assumptions, inspiring changes in corporate culture, and leaving a legacy.

Does Mark’s story sound similar to where you are now?

Mark loves his company and the work he does. Like many of the self-employed, he is generally happy. During a recent conversation with a good friend who is a vice president in a larger local corporation, they started talking about how they are thriving in their work but they are noticing a sort of fatigue or boredom…Mark is wondering if he is “stuck in a rut” or itchy to take the organization in a new direction. During coaching, Mark discovered that he had maintained a bad habit of over-analyzing his decisions and postponing launching new products for his technology business. He became aware of how this was undermining both his authority and his desire to grow his small company into a mid-sized enterprise. He questioned his reluctance to commit to a shorter decision-making time and lead his executive team in a new direction. At the end, he had hired new employees, moved to a larger space, and had new accounts with larger national corporations.  

Action steps-

• Identify limiting beliefs and bad habits that prevent you from fully capitalizing on your dream business
• Review leadership and management skills and design the next stage of career development (evaluate board membership in non-profit organizations, identify opportunities to mentor leaders of younger companies, changing role within current organization)
• Clarify what direction you wish to lead your small business
• Define what your legacy looks like in terms of exit strategies/succession plans

What might your action steps be? Shall we discuss them?